James Allison, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
For pioneering a novel and effective strategy to harness the immune system for treating solid tumor cancers.

DOUGLAS C. WALLACE, PH.D.

Founder and Director, Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine,University of Pennsylvania, PA, U.S.A.

For pioneering the field of human mitochondrial genetics and its application to the study of disease, aging, and patterns of human migration.

For their co-discovery of a new method for precisely manipulating genetic information in ways that should produce new insights in health and disease, and may lead to the discovery of new targets for drug development.

David Julius, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

For his discovery of the molecular mechanism that controls thermosensation (sensory perception of temperature) and elucidation of the role this mechanism plays in the sensation of acute and inflammatory pain.

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